Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Wardhouse, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wardhouse
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.46982, -8.34608
- SMR number
- LE001-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an undulating landscape. There is no evidence of a possible megalithic tomb mentioned by Holly (1976, 137), and its precise location is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 December, 015
References
Holly, D. 1976 Megalithic monuments at Tullaghan. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 5 (17), 121-39.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.